Leading with Genuine Care

Sara Avant Stover is a business strategist, Internal Family Systems practitioner and author based in Boulder, Colorado. She works with female spiritual entrepreneurs to help them with both the spiritual and practical aspects of building a business and pursuing inner transformation. She draws on 25 years as a yoga and meditation practitioner and a teacher, author, and entrepreneur.    Sara is an "o...

"All the past and all the future are present in this moment ."   — Blake D. Bauer   Blake D. Bauer is the author of the international best-seller You Were Not Born To Suffer. A speaker and teacher, he has studied a wide range of modalities, including psychology, nutrition, traditional Chinese medicine, and past life regression therapy-hypnosis. All that Blake has learned started as a quest when he...

"Relationships are where we receive the greatest fulfillment and the greatest challenge."  — Elysabeth Williamson Today's guest is Elysabeth Williamson, a self-taught yoga teacher of 35 years who developed Principle-Based Partner Yoga,™ a system of yoga that focuses on relationship and connection with others. She also uses this work to encourage people to think and talk about death and dying as a...

"Really, death is a journey into and through the mind."   — Andrew Holocek  In this episode, I speak with Andrew Holecek, the author of several books on meditation and lucid dreaming. While he's had a career as a dental surgeon, he has had a lifelong interest in meditation and the wisdom traditions. In 1998, he went on a three-year retreat at Sopa Choling in Nova Scotia, Canada. He calls this expe...

" The fundamental idea of gross national happiness is to say that the center of our attention should be the happiness of all people as well as all life forms."   — Tho Va Hinh   This week I speak to a returning guest, Tho Va Hinh, author of The Culture of Happiness and founder of the Eurasia Foundation and the Eurasia Learning Institute for Happiness and Wellbeing. He's designed the Happy Schools...

"When we're no longer grasping for the money, it often flows more easily to us."  — Spencer Sherman   This week's guest is Spencer Sherman, CEO of Abacus Wealth Partners, a certified mindfulness teacher and author of The Cure for Money Madness. He also teaches people how to have a healthier relationship with money through his online courses and is on the faculty at NYU's Inner MBA program.    In t...

"If we want to be free, at some point we have to plant our staff in the ground and say, 'I am here.'"  — Koshin Paley Ellison This week's guest is Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison, founder and guiding teacher of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care. Ellison is an author, Jungian psychotherapist and ACPE Certified Chaplain Educator. Koshin has served as the co-director for Contemplative Care S...

"I just believe we were put here for a purpose." – Don Lupo   This week's guest is Don Lupo, an advocate for the homeless and others in need. Twenty-three years ago, Lupo left a career as a successful businessman to start a new career in service to his community, the city of Birmingham, AL. In 2016, he was awarded the FBI Director's Community Leadership Award and was named one of the "Top 50 Over...

Jay Steinfeld |  Experimenting and Enjoying the Ride  "You really never know when you set out to do anything, if it's going to work. If you do know, then you're not experimenting enough."  — Jay Steinfeld    This week's guest is Jay Steinfeld, author of Lead from the Core and founder of Blinds.com, which he sold to Home Depot in 2014. Steinfeld remained the company's CEO until he left in 2020 to n...

"I'm on a mission to share with the world that you can have a good quality of life and a successful business."  — Dr. Sabrina Starling    This week's guest is Dr. Sabrina Starling, The Business Psychologist, bestselling author of the How To Hire the Best series and The 4 Week Vacation and host of the Profit by Design podcast. Sabrina's company, Tap the Potential, helps entrepreneurs learn how to b...

Nicole Glaros | It's About the How, Not the What "It's so much more powerful to be a 'we' than an 'I.' You get so much further when it's ours, not mine."  — Nicole Glaros   This week's guest is Nicole Glaros, partner and chief investment strategy officer at Techstars, a venture capital firm in Boulder, Colorado. Nicole joined Techstars in 2008, bringing her experience as a three-time startup found...

"If you don't know where you're going, how are you making the decisions to get there?"  — Ryan Tansom   Ryan Tansom is founder of Arkona, a company that helps businesses grow with intention through trainings and fractional CFO services. I am thrilled to have Ryan join me on the podcast, since he and his cofounder, Pat Hobby, have been a big help to me in my own business, imageOne , and have helped...

"We've got to get to a place where the conversations are deeper at a heart level." — Melvin Gravely   This week's guest is Melvin Gravely, entrepreneur and author of Dear White Friend . Melvin is CEO of TriVersity, a black-owned construction company in Cincinnati that was founded and continues to run under the principle that diversity brings power. He has also written several other books, on entre...

George Mumford | In the Eye of the Hurricane  "When you get rid of noise and clutter, nothing's there. But because nothing's there, there could be anything there." — George Mumford   This week I chatted with George Mumford, renowned teacher and coach on mindfulness and performance. George has worked with such athletes as Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, Shaquille O'Neal and many other elite athletes a...

"Conflict is the hallmark of progress, success and happiness when you deal with it well." — Gabe Karp    My guest this week is Gabe Karp, former trial attorney, venture capitalist, speaker, and author of Don't Get Mad at Penguins and Other Ways to Detox the Conflict in Your Life and Business . After ten years as a trial attorney, Gabe joined the startup ePrize, now Merkle, which became one of the...

"It's very simple. Decide when you get up in the morning that you're going to have a terrific day, no matter what happens." — Dr. Sri Rao   My guest this week is Dr. Srikumar Rao, an elite coach who works with business executives, professionals, and entrepreneurs. He is widely known for his popular course, Creativity and Personal Mastery, first developed for Columbia Business School. His talk, "Ho...

"What does it mean to lead from a context of curiosity, to being more committed to learning than being right?" — Kaley Klemp   This week, I chat with Kaley Klemp , a transformational executive and leadership coach and coauthor of The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership . She helps leaders align themselves with their priorities and values; she also helps high performing teams overcome challenges...

"A lot of being human is… pinballing around in this world, versus realizing that there's a deeper intention behind why we're here." — Stephen Dinan   A little more wisdom is never a bad thing. And it might be easier to access than you think, if you're open-minded. My guest on the podcast this week is Stephen Dinan, a lifelong learner who now helps others on their quest for spiritual growth and awa...

"My mind has caused me tremendous pain in my life that has felt outside of my control. But I can build a relationship with it, and ultimately, my mind can be a good place to be." — Matthew Hepburn Your mind tries so hard to take care of you: Give it a little credit and a little help. This week's guest is Matthew Hepburn, a meditation teacher who knows first hand how complicated managing your own m...

"We need to find the interruptions that bring us out of the state of anxiety and into the present moment long enough that we can make better choices." — Lodro Rinzler   You can't completely avoid stress — so prepare yourself with the best tools available to manage it.    Lodro Rinzler has been practicing meditation since he was a child, and teaching it since he was in college. He's the author of m...

"Every person has the opportunity to discover what their language is in the business world. The more time they spend living that language, the better they will do." — Lewis Schiff   Being an entrepreneur gives you the freedom to get hands-on in every area of business. The best entrepreneurs learn which parts they excel at and which ones are better left to someone else — and they do as much of what...

  "How do we hold transactions in their place, while also honoring the much larger spectrum of the human experience?" — Nipun Mehta   You've probably heard of paying it forward: Responding to an act of kindness someone shows you by helping another person. To Nipun Mehta , it's not just a nice idea, it's a way of living and leading that can change all our lives for the better.   Nipun is a former S...

"The power of love, that's what I experience every day. Just looking into the children's eyes: that's enough." — Sister Lucy Kurien   Facing an imposing goal with limited resources, many of us would give in, unsure of where to even start. Sister Lucy Kurien took on a mission that seemed almost impossible — and she's still aiming higher. Sister Lucy became a nun at 19, because she wanted to help th...

"A lot of people in the business world tell me they don't have 30 minutes for mindfulness. … [But] there are all these opportunities for mindfulness hidden in life." — Nate Klemp   Mindfulness is good for more than a morning meditation or a nighttime wind-down. Used consistently, it can help you feel less anxious in every moment of your life. This week, Nate Klemp, author and co-founder of corpora...

"We can begin to develop habits of positive thinking, feeling and doing, which become more accessible because we're using them more often. In turn, the negative connections become less reinforced, and they weaken in our neural networks." — Scott Glassman Learning to apply positive psychology doesn't mean changing your mindset overnight. Instead, Scott Glassman, Psy. D., recommends starting your jo...